Reel for reeling-machines.



y UNITED STATES PATENTOFFCE.

ALEXANDER McLANE, OF LANSFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, AND GRANT SIPP, OF V PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

REEL FOR` REELING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

Application led December 12, 1908. Serial No. 467,181.

" To all whom itmwy concern;

- hereby Adeclare the following to be a full, 10

. tion, such as will enable others skilled in the clear, and'exact description of the invenart towh 'ch it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, andv to characters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

" said pivoted arms with the collar. The ends` This invention relates toreeling -machines and it consists in certain improvements in a reel of the type 0f that shown in our application for U. S. Letters Patent iled of even .date (Serial No. 467,182) herewith, .which reel is constructed so as to allow radial adjustment of, its blades for 'the' purpose of compensating for the' reduction in circumference which attends planing or otherwise smoothingdown the blades of the reel to removefnotches or other roughness pro,-

duced by careless handling of the reel, it being apparent that when the bladesof the reel are so planed or smoothed down it becomes impossible to continue to gage accurately the number of yards reeled ott' by the number of revolutions accomplished. In the present instance, the adjustment is eilected by devicesacting against the under edge or faceV of the blade.

Referring to the -accompanying drawing, Fi re 1 is a side elevation of the improved re; Fig. 2 is a detail view, partly in section, of one-of the arms, a blade and the adjustmg means; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of Fig. 2 taken between the blader and 'the adjusting device; Fig. Il is a y view similar to Fig. 2, illustrating a modiication; Fig.'5 shows a detail of Fig. 4; and, Figs. 6,7,.8 and 9 illustrate three other modifications of the invention.

Thebody of the reel comprises, as usual, the shaft a carrying a bevel pinion Z), the

'two spiders c, pre erably four-armed, se-

cured on the-shaft and each having one of its arms d pivoted to swing on its inner end in a radial plane, the collar e fixed on said shaft, and the toggle j' connecting one of of the arms are fitked as at g. In Ythe manner to be described, the blades it are are@ ranged in the forked ends of the arms, and that blade which is moved in the pivoted arms is normally held in the extended position vby a spring z' which connects the toggle with the opposite blade and acts t0 holdthe toggle extended.

Each blade is rovided with a rad'al""sl0l; jin theportion tiereof directly receivedbyA the forked ends of the arms, saidslot bein penetrated by a screw 7c which is passe freely through one part ofthe fork of the; arm and is screwed into the other part of said fork, whereby the screw may be made to clamp the blade between said parts of the fork.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, screw threading Z is formed in the forked portion of each arm below the blade Land into this is screwed a threaded adjusting plug m, having crossing holes n to receive a na1l or other implement for turning and thus adjusting` it, the top of the plug being preferably convex, as at 0, (Fig. 3) particularly inthe case of the plugs for the collapsing blade, so that it will not unduly wear or mar the blade, and the plug being attached to the blade by a screw.

In Fig. 4, a plug p having'a head q and 85 threaded shank 'r tapped into the body of the arm is shown, the head having crossing holes s to receive the adjusting implement. We showin Figs. 4 and 5 a device to hold the adjusting plug against turning after adjusting, the same being a metallic disk z5 -set in the wood of the blade h, the plug and disk having mating radial serrations u.

In Fig. 6, reversely arran ed Wedge blocks o are arranged in the fork o each arm under the blade, the same having their contacting faces lw serrated so that when the wedge blocks are adjusted longitudinally of each other in opposite directions they will retain the adjustment.

In F ig. 7 a polygonal block is arranged cccentrically on a pivot y inthe fork of each arm under the blade; the distances between the geometrical axis of block m and an two sides of the block being different, di 'ere'nt radial adjustments of the blade may be secured according to which face o f the block is presented upon turning the`block on its pivot.

In Figs. S and 9 a block z is attached by a screw 1 or the like to the-inner edge of the blade land it and the inside of the forked p ortion of the arm c. have mating serrations 2.

seri-ation 1 In practice, the adjusting devices having been set in the proper positions to secure the, desired adjustment of the blades, the screvv` 7c is'set so as to'hold the blade against out'- Ward movement under the action of centrifugal or-other forces; 'in all of the-forms, when the screw is thus adjusted, it causes the forked portion gto bind not only against the blade, but against the adjusting device, the engagement between the 4latter and each radial face of the portion g acting to maintain the adjusting device in fixed relation where adjusted.

Y Having thus ully described our` invention, what We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In a reel', the combination ofthe reel body having forked portions, 'blades arran ed in said forked portions, one of said blaes being movable radially of theI reel body, adjusting means arran ed in the reel body and bearing againstt e inner ,face

of themovable blade and also engaging the inner faces ofsaidV forked portions, and means for clampin the forked .portions into contact with the -lade and' the adjusting means, substantially as described( 2. In a reel, the combination of the 'reel body having :forked portions, blades carried by the reel body substantially parallel-with its axis and 'one of them being arranged in said forked portions and'vmovable radially 4of the vreel body, and adjustingdevices ar-'` ranged in said forked portions rand bearing against devicesand the forked portions having serrations engaged with each,\other,substank t' tially as described. t t

In testimony that I, claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand Vthis 4th4 day of December, 1908.- l 1- i WVitnesses: v

OSCAR KUDNER, JAMES I. BULMEnL a In testimony that-I. 'claim :the foregoing,

I have `hereunto set my handthis 11th,. day

f December, 1908, Y GRANr SUPP.Y

Witnesses: .Y

JOHN STEWARD,"

the inner` face Vof said blade, 'said ALEXANDER, 

